Petunia's Rules was(Re: Some Discrepancies)

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 86525


> Carol:
> I don't think it's necessary for Harry to have seen photos of the
> Evanses for the mirror to depict them accurately. In fact, it's most
> unlikely that he knows anything about his mother's side of the 
family,
> living or dead. Uncle Vernon keeps a pretty tight lid on that topic,
> which is why Petunia virtually explodes in the few instances where
> she's allowed to talk about her "freak" of a sister and the "awful
> boy" she married. She's not likely to keep photos of her parents, 
who
> favored Lily over her, lying around. And the knobbly-kneed older 
man,
> presumably a relative on the Potter side, certainly wouldn't have 
been
> in those photos.
> 
Karen:
I have read in several posts lately that Vernon does not allow 
Petunia to speak of her family.  This has started to confuse me 
because the way I read it in PS/SS is that Vernon was affraid to 
bring up the Potter's to Petunia because she hates to discuss her 
sister in any way, and he aggrees with this decision.  It seems to 
have been taken on this list that Vernon sets the rules and Petunia 
just falls in line, but I have always seen it as Petunia making the 
rules.